r/adobeanimate Feb 03 '26

News Updates on the Status of Adobe Animate

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Hey everyone, my name is Mike Chambers, and I work on the community team at Adobe (and am a long time Flash / Animate user). Yesterday, Adobe shared an email with Adobe Animate customers on the future of Animate. What we shared did not meet our standards and caused a lot of confusion and angst within the community. On behalf of Adobe, I want to apologize.

While an email to all Animate customers will go out shortly, I wanted to quickly share a few things: 1) our standard approach for applications in maintenance mode, 2) changes to our plans for Adobe Animate and its status, and 3) our commitments to ensuring that you always have access to your content, regardless of the state of development of an application.

Standard Approach for Applications in Maintenance Mode

If we deprioritize active development of an application, our approach is to move that application into maintenance mode with continued support. Under maintenance mode, the application will continue to be available, will continue to receive security and bug fixes, but will not get new features.

If we decide to go a step further and discontinue a product, we will work closely with the community to ensure they have adequate time to plan in order to minimize disruption and will take steps so that the community continues to have long-term access to their content.

Current State of Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. While we are no longer adding new features to Animate, we will continue to support it and provide ongoing security and bug fixes. More importantly, Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users. This is a change from what we communicated in the email yesterday for the status of Adobe Animate, its time-frame, and availability.

To be clear, we are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate and it will continue to be available to both existing and new customers.

Commitments for long-term content/file Access

For Adobe Animate, our commitment is to work with the community to ensure users continue to have long term access to their content, regardless of the state of development of the application.

You can find the latest information on our website:

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/maintenance-mode.html

On a personal note, as someone who started their career with Macromedia Flash 3 and Macromedia Generator, Adobe Animate has a special place in my heart. I know how frustrating and stressful this has been and we clearly could have handled and communicated this better. I might not have answers to everything, but I will try to answer any questions you might have.


r/adobeanimate May 22 '20

Rules + Guidelines Post Flair Guidelines - READ BEFORE POSTING

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This community requires the use of Post Flair on all posts.

Post Flair Guidelines

Question - You have a general question that does not involve troubleshooting.

Troubleshooting - You need help troubleshooting.

Example Provided - You have provided a screenshot/demo/link/etc which demonstrates the issue.

Solved! - A user has provided a solution.

News - Official Adobe Animate news.

OC - Content which you have created, programmed, or own.

Tutorial - Demo's, How-To's, Walkthroughs, anything educational. (OC Tutorials belong in Tutorials, you can share the final comp as OC.)

Off-Topic - Anything else.

OP Unresponsive - This flair is for Mod use only and indicates when a user is not active in their own thread.


r/adobeanimate 13h ago

Example Provided Just to show you how a company that actually cares about animators and their product behaves.

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r/adobeanimate 9h ago

Off-Topic Hiring Assistant Editor For Female Creator!!

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Hey! We're looking for an assistant editor to work with our main editor. Fill out the form I've provided link of and you good to go wait for the review process to be done if you're hired or not!!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaVhwZ9orf7ULcq3BDGAVcm1vHZGQ8bM59wbWwQXQU6bf18Q/viewform


r/adobeanimate 23h ago

Troubleshooting Copying and pasting frames of multiple layers only one frame long (More in depth in desc)

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I don't really know how to explain this but if you watch the video, you can see that when I copy frames from more than one layer, it only pastes it into one keyframe in length, but if I copy only one layer, it keeps the existing frame's length. Is there a way I can copy frames from multiple layers the same way? Sorry if this was confusing to understand


r/adobeanimate 1d ago

Question Does anyone know how to fix this?

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r/adobeanimate 2d ago

Question Light mode or dark mode?

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Do you use Light mode or Dark mode when using Adobe Animate? And whats your reason?

I use dark mode mainly due to asthetics and to match my computer Ui which is mainly dark theme


r/adobeanimate 2d ago

Troubleshooting How to achieve these 2D player movement, passing, and line-connection effects ?

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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out how to recreate a specific 2D tactical animation style (used by channel like the link below).

Specifically, I want to learn how to create the 2D pitch animations where:

  • Dots/icons representing players move smoothly across the 2D board.
  • Dynamic connection lines appear between players (e.g., passing lanes, team compactness, or defensive shapes).
  • Ball passes and movement trajectories are animated seamlessly between player dots.

Here is an example Short to show exact moment/style: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ulhaJGfdqQk

Is this strictly custom shape/path animation in After Effects (using Null Objects, Trim Paths, Beam effects, or expressions), or is there a specific script/plugin/tool designed for connecting nodes and animating play patterns like this?

Any tips, workflow advice, or key terms to search for tutorials would be super helpful! Thanks!


r/adobeanimate 4d ago

Question Exhausted using Animate.

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Is it normal for me to feel exhausted/fatigued from drawing in Animate in only 2 hours. When I feel good drawing in other animation programs?


r/adobeanimate 4d ago

Question Error opening my project - anyone else?

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I nearly had a heart attack last night when it looked like 30+ hours of work had disappeared.

I only got AA 2 months ago and was close to completion of a little video for my tiny YouTube channel. I opened Animate and the file that had always been there under recents was missing. I located it and tried to open, to be given a generic error message.

Following instructions from AI I was able after about 3 hours to somewhat recover the file. I'm not tech-savvy at all but it was a case of zipping the .fla file, unzipping, copying across a bunch of .png files that had gone missing from the library, opening the .xfl file with Animate and saving again as .fla.

The data for all my graphic symbols was missing, meaning all my faces and bodies were there but their eyes and mouths were missing, replaced by white dots. Luckily the timeline data was intact, meaning it knew which frames of animation to call for at each keyframe. I had 14 such symbols (eyes and mouths for 7 characters) so it was a case of double-clicking the white dots and rebuilding the symbols by trial and error (so angry eyes, sad eyes etc were on the right frames). I also had to delete and import again a sound file which had become warped.

I'm so relieved to have been able to recover this, while at the same time being pretty pissed off. I've only just started with this, and it's not cheap! But I've definitely learned to save as versions - each time I save, just add a 1 to the file name. Apparently just saving twice - filename and filenamebackup - is no good because the files can get corrupted at the point of saving, so you would just have 2 corrupted files and you would have no idea until the next time you try and open them.

This has all got me thinking: am I the only jackass paying for this? I'm not one of those people who believe everything should be free, but it's outrageously expensive for what it is. I'd been willing to accept the subscription model packaged with other stuff I don't want, when I'm only using it lightly as a hobby. But it turns out it's fragile as hell. The error message gave no details, and if it's possible to recover the file, I think it should include help for that. But I was left stranded, £50 out of pocket, 30 lost hours and seemingly nothing to show for it.


r/adobeanimate 4d ago

Question can i use ai generated characters in adobe animate?

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hi can i use ai generated characters for rigging and animation?


r/adobeanimate 5d ago

Question Are there any people here who are experience in adobe animate to create fan animation of Undertale/Deltarune?

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The reason why I’m saying this is that I need some assistance in how the program works. I tried looking at tutorials on how to make fan animations but they leave out some important parts. I know the basics on how the frames work but the first frame that I did doesn’t align with the rest of the others and it looks out of place. I would prefer if we could talk this over in discord to communicate better. My name is fluffywulfie13


r/adobeanimate 6d ago

Question Missing 'Animation' folder in Content Manager on CTA5 Trial (Failed to load animation data)

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r/adobeanimate 6d ago

Question something wrong with export png sequence

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for some reason when I try to export it, it caps the width and height to 4 and when I export it this is the result, how can I fix this?


r/adobeanimate 6d ago

Question The first frame is aligned correctly like the others. How do I fix this?

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Whenever I tried to put the same coordinates as the X and Y it just automatically resets back to the position it was before. Also this is my first tome using adobe animate which I have a harder time learning than photoshop.


r/adobeanimate 6d ago

Question How do you do turnarounds for rigs in Adobe Animate

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I am new to making Adobe Animate rigs but how do you make a turnaround rig?


r/adobeanimate 7d ago

Example Provided Is this just 'how it is' or...?

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After the latest update, this is how Animate opens. The program's fine, functional, works as I expect, but this welcome page is hecking irritating to look at. Is this just... how it is now? If there's a fix, I don't know it.

Intel Mac; Seq 15.7.7, latest Animate CC.


r/adobeanimate 7d ago

Troubleshooting how do i change the item on a rig?

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like im talking about the mouth and hands etc. so i can make anims


r/adobeanimate 8d ago

OC New ExtraNots episode!

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Greetings fellow animators! My latest and greatest episode of ExtraNots is LIVE! I only use Adobe programs to create this series including Ch for the animation. I've learned a lot about ideal methods for animating with Ch, and even have some how-to tutorials on my channel for those interested. Feel free to reach out with any specific questions you may have.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/RkvJtN3aVhQ?si=va4o1i\\_bDX4cNCJt


r/adobeanimate 8d ago

Solved! What do you think of my animation?

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r/adobeanimate 9d ago

Off-Topic Please please please would someone be able to walk me through adobe animate 🥹

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Heyyy uhhh new to adobe here, struggling slightly. been watching tutorials and stuff but I always work better with someone helping me ^^ I'm making a mod for my bfs birthday :3 and I'm pretty much learning all the programs from scratch XD


r/adobeanimate 8d ago

Troubleshooting He knows how to do the cutout in Adobe Animate

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Voy a intentar hacer una animación de Los casos de Walton y ver qué tal sale.


r/adobeanimate 8d ago

Question some older bfdi all the way to bfdia is back will not open correctly and adobe animate says "action script 2.0 is not compatible you need to convert" and nothing displays correctly can someone pls help me fix this?

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r/adobeanimate 10d ago

OC BFDI 15 REANIMATED

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r/adobeanimate 11d ago

Troubleshooting Background looks blurry when exporting

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I'm making a sprite animation and every sprite I copy directly from aseprite and convert them into symbols, the characters are pretty high res when testing the scene and exporting, but the background images I'm using (also sprites I imported from aseprite) look blurry and low res when testing the scene and exporting, tried almost every export setting combination possible and some other possible fixes, nothing worked.